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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A foreign view of the civil War in America. (search)
pers even have warmly commended without reading]. History of the civil War in America. By the Comte de Paris. Translated, with the approval of the Author, by Louis F. Tasistro. Edited by Henry Coppee, Ll. D. Volume I. Philadelphia: Joseph H. Coates & Co. 1875. It would be absurdly extravagant praise to say of this bulky volume, what was said with such pointed severity of the reply to Bentley, published under the name of Boyle, in the once famous controversy concerning the letters of Phalaris, that it was the best book ever written by any man upon the wrong side of a question of which he was profoundly ignorant. It would, indeed, be much nearer the truth, strong as such language certainly is, to pronounce it the worst book ever written under such circumstances. It would seem well nigh impossible for the mingled force of prejudice and ignorance to go farther, great as their powers confessedly are. Such sentences as the following, taken from the preface, read like the bitteres